I think this course was really great. I know Jon always asks how the course and course structure is, and how everyone is finding it [in comparison to other classes] but I really do think this is something special. As someone who has dropped out of university once already, this is the kind of content that was drawing me back to my education. After taking time off from school it was a priority to me that I enjoyed my classes and that I felt like I was actually learning, instead of just coasting. I think this class has done that! It’s definitely hard to please my standards of content and also my attention span so props to Jon for doing that, (most of the time).<\/p>\n
I really, really loved the inclusion of poetry and I only wish that there was more of it throughout the term. I didn’t know too much about Gabriela Mistral before this class but now that I do, I will be reading her other work much more adamantly. Clarice Lispector I’ve always loved so it was nice to be assigned a book I knew I would already like. I also had read the beginning of One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/em> before I enrolled in this class and I do not think I would have continued if it weren’t for this class, (because of all the incest probably, I think that would have weirded me out).<\/p>\n I also loved the connections from last year’s class. Reading Lispector and Roberto Bola\u00f1o again was a very nice call-back, it’s like we got to continue from where we left off last time. Very nice full-circle moment for those of us who took the class last year.<\/p>\n The concept of play and ‘magic circle’ were very helpful to me in my readings. There is not a ton of classes (the ones I was taking anyway) where the ‘central’ theme is actually upheld, especially in regards to literature, so it was nice that play was easily and casually integrated into all of the texts. I came across examples of play very organically in almost all the texts. It wasn’t too overbearing nor was it passive, so that was good.<\/p>\n I think another thing to mention once again is the course structure. I really, really enjoy this class structure and it has made me look at other classes in a different light. It altered my opinion on what stress\u00a0should<\/span> look like when it comes to coursework. School doesn’t (and probably shouldn’t be) stressful to the point where my hair turns gray.<\/p>\n Anyway, thanks to Jon and Daniel and everyone else who made this term slightly more bearable. As anyone who has been in my vicinity knows, I always have opinions, I can’t say more than two sentences without cursing or saying something off-hand so thanks to everyone for putting up with me.<\/p>\n Also, apologies for all the times I’ve brought snacks with really loud wrappers.<\/p>\n Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" week13. conclusion – I think this course was really great. I know Jon always asks how the course and course structure is, and how everyone is finding it [in comparison to other classes] but I really do think this is something special. As someone who has dropped out of university once already, this is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conclusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hopscotch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hopscotch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hopscotch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hopscotch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hopscotch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hopscotch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hopscotch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hopscotch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hopscotch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hopscotch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}